Ocarina Definition

ŏkə-rēnə
noun
A small, simple wind instrument shaped like a sweet potato, with finger holes and a mouthpiece: it produces soft, hollow tones.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Ocarina

Noun

Singular:
ocarina
Plural:
ocarinas

Origin of Ocarina

  • Italian from dialectal ucarenna diminutive of Italian oca goose (from the fact that its mouthpiece is shaped like a goose's beak) from Vulgar Latin auca from avica from Latin avis bird awi- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from Italian ocarina (“little goose"), due to the musical instrument's resemblance to the animal.

    From Wiktionary

Ocarina Sentence Examples

  • This book has been written for the English 4-hole & 6-hole ocarina.

  • Ocarina of Time looked and felt and played like any old Zelda title, and that was the utter beauty of it.

  • Beside her a man playing an ocarina, was sitting under a baobab tree.

  • The first 3D Zelda adventure was Ocarina of Time.

  • Ocarina of Time was a complete and utter smack in the face to all of the companies trying something "new" and "innovative."

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